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172 IV. What are its attributes, qualities and characteristics?

V. What things can I most readily associate with it? What is it like?

VI. What is it good for—how may it be used—what can I do with it?

VII. What does it prove—what can be deduced from it?

VIII. What are its natural results—what happens because of it?

IX. What is its future; and its natural or probable end or finish?

X. What do I think of it, on the whole—what are my general impressions regarding it?

XI. What do I know about it, in the way of general information?

XII. What have I heard about it, and from whom, and when?

If you will take the trouble to put any “fact” through the above rigid examination, you will not only attach it to hundreds of convenient and familiar other facts, so that you will remember it readily upon occasion, but you will also create a new subject of general information in your mind of which this par-